Louise
Burfitt-Dons says, ‘women are scared of being called hypocrites’
14.08.07
Louise Burfitt-Dons addressed visitors to the London
Aware Expo on at the Barbican Exhibition Hall in London recently on the
subject of Global Warming: An Inconvenient Truth or A Convenient Lie.
After outlining the differences between the global warming
sceptics who believe that climate change is a natural phenomenon and the
activists who believe that global warming is human-induced, she said that
the latest poll from STATs found that 97% of scientists believe global
temperatures have increased and 84 % of those personally believe that
it is human-induced.’
‘The sceptical lobby has been more vocal than ever in
recent months,’ said Burfitt-Dons quoting the case of the 15 year old
teenager Kristen Byrnes who had become an overnight internet celebrity
over her critique of Al Gore’s popular documentary and said that the debate
had become very heated indeed.
‘At the Global Warming Alliance we get emails tri-weekly
from anxious sceptics who use quite emotive language,’ she added cheerfully.
‘But it appears both sides are pitted against one another with both lobbies
claiming that their scientists have been intimidated by employers, scientific
research bodies and the like.
She went on to talk about the Hot Women Campaign which
she said she began in an effort to address the growing climate of scepticism
amongst women with regard to climate change because of ‘not wanting to
be accused of being a hypocrite because they drive a car, their husband
has a job in a ‘bad’ industry or they take an overseas holiday.’
Most women don’t want that type of trouble in their lives,’
she continued. ‘Celebrities, politicians and campaigners like myself don’t
care too much because we‘re used to it. That is our job.’
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